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LEC #TOPICS
1Foundations, Explanation in Language Acquisition, Mechanisms of Acquisition (Learning, Parameter Setting, Maturation), the Idea of Learnability. 
Input to the Learner.
An Overview of Linguistic Development, What Kinds of Objects Develop When? (e. g., Head chains, A-chains, A-bar Chains)
2Verb Movement and Inflection in Young Children.
The Existence of Functional Categories in Young Children.
The Existence of Head-chains in Young Children.
3Agreement and Case in Young Children.
4Null Subjects
5Truncation versus AGR/TNS Deletion and the UCC.
6Deviance of the Inflectional System in Development, Specific Language Impairment.
7Learning Models for Parameter-Setting: Word Order and Inflection and for Phonology/Morphology.
8The Development of Argument Chains.
9More Passive, Spec-Head Relations and Maturation in the Young Child.
10Binding Theory
11Recent New Results in the Development of Binding: Variability across languages, Relation to Reference and Type of Pronoun, Clitic Exemptions from DPBE and Pronouns as Subjects of Small Clauses Licensed by Perceptual Verbs.
12Learning Language Specific Contrasts and Phonotactic Distributions.
13Child Phonologies: Evidence for Markedness in Phonological Acquisition?
 


 



 








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